Mexican Hat

Mexican Hat is a census-designated place in San Juan County, Utah. It was named for a sombrero-shaped rock formation, and it was erroneously named "Medicine Hat" in the book The Ballad of Buster Scruggs & Other Tales of the American Frontier (1873), which described it as a town of many saloons and no churches, and one of many bad men and no sheriff. In 2010, Mexican Hat had a population of 31.